A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. A failure of the file system metadata validator in XFS can cause an inode with a valid, user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt. This can lead to the filesystem being shutdown, or otherwise rendered inaccessible until it is remounted, leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
CVE-2020-14385
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 34.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 15, 2020
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (10)
- secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00001.html
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14385
- secalert@redhathttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f4020438fab05364018c91f7e02ebdd192085933
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html
- secalert@redhathttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00001.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-14385
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f4020438fab05364018c91f7e02ebdd192085933
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00025.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4576-1/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2020-14385(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2020:4289Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:4286Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:4287Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update
Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | linux-image-virtual-hwe-20.04 (5.4.0.51.54) @ focal | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kernel-0:3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7 | 2020-12-15 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-1160.11.1.rt56.1145.el7 | 2020-12-15 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-80.31.1.el8_0 | 2020-11-24 | redhat |
| redhat | kpatch-patch | 2020-11-10 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2 | 2020-10-20 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-193.28.1.rt13.77.el8_2 | 2020-10-20 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-147.32.1.el8_1 | 2020-10-20 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(8)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2020-143852020-09-25
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. A failure of the file system metadata validator in XFS can cause an inode with a valid user-creatable extended attribute to be flagged as corrupt. This can lead to the filesystem being shutdown or otherwise rendered inaccessible until it is remounted leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
- Red HatRHSA-2020:4331IMPORTANT2020-08-25
RHSA-2020:4331 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:4332IMPORTANT2020-08-25
RHSA-2020:4332 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:5050IMPORTANT2020-08-25
RHSA-2020:5050 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:5199IMPORTANT2020-08-25
RHSA-2020:5199 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:5437IMPORTANT2020-08-25
RHSA-2020:5437 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2020:5441IMPORTANT2020-08-25
RHSA-2020:5441 — Important
- UbuntuUSN-4576-1LOW
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